RAMSLOT wrote:
Thank you for the nice reply. Before seeing your post I deleted the plist in the Library, did a restart ---->. still hangs, Then I did a "safe launch" and the document window popped up. I tried a pdf and rtf and they both loaded fine, The Window selection at the top bar while running TE no longer shows recent documents. Seems I should try launching each and every TE document and perhaps that will find the offender. Why would jUst one safe launch cure this issue and also cause the new appearance of the selection window? Did the plist hold the list of windows in the TE menu? What is in the plist file?
Safe Boot does many things like clearing System Cache files and other behind the scenes things
It is used as one of the first Trouble Shooting suggestion
Now, having deleted the TextEdit .plist ?
.plist is shorten language for preferences list
In this specific case TextEdit preferences.
The restarting the computer and launching Textedit again ?
TextEdit would have created a New .plist for TextEdit
That is a rather unusual method that is not often used but available for those who to advance work.
Just for sake of interest
I am including a Screen Shot of my TextEdit .plist file running macOS 26.2 Tahoe
As you can see there is a lot of machine language which you and I would not what to monkey around with unless we were Experts in such matters
